Senior Solutions Architect (RapidScale)

Company: Cox Communications, Inc. Job Family: Group Sales Job Profile: Sr. Solutions Engineer – CCI Management Level Manager (Non People Leader) Flexible Work Option: Can work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region. Travel: Yes, 25% of the time Work Shift: Day Compensation: Base salary range $0.00 - $0.00. Eligible for annual incentive/commission target. Job Description: At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. We deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds, helping organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. As an Elite Broadcom VMware VCSP Partner and top partner with AWS, Azure, and Google, our solutions focus on business outcomes with embedded cyber resiliency and AI to protect today and enable tomorrow backed by the strength of the Cox family of companies. Senior Solutions Architect Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Client Discovery & Consulting Lead technical discovery engagements with customers to uncover business goals, pain points, and drivers. Translate requirements into tailored, outcome-focused cloud and infrastructure solutions. Run workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and stakeholder interviews. Balance breadth and depth, knowing when to go deep on architecture vs. when to focus on business outcomes based on the different customer personas you encounter in each customer engagement. Solution Architecture & Design Architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments, aligning with performance, availability, security, and compliance needs. Represent our hosted cloud and other core offerings at a deep technical level, fully scoping, architecting, and presenting solutions comprised of these services. Represent our public cloud offerings at a high level, identifying customer needs that dictate a public cloud solution, and pulling in public cloud specialists as needed for deeper scoping, solutioning, and presentation of these solutions. Collaborate to architect multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions across both hosted and public cloud service sets, ensuring the best alignment with customer outcomes. Collaboration & Leadership Act as the technical lead throughout the sales cycle, from discovery to hand-off. Collaborate with sales, product, and specialist teams to align solutions with account strategy. Participate in RFPs, solution reviews, and scope definitions. Security & Compliance Design Design security architectures including MDR, SOCaaS, IAM, SIEM/SOAR, and vulnerability management. Ensure solutions align with compliance standards (HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, ISO, NIST). Networking & Connectivity Design secure, high-performance networks integrating SD-WAN, VPN, DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls across on-prem and cloud environments. Technology Evangelism Stay current on emerging tech (cloud, AI/ML, automation, cybersecurity) and translate innovation into business strategy. Educate clients and internal teams on current and future-state capabilities. Translate innovative technology solutions RapidScale does today and roadmap item to show clients current and future business outcomes. Qualifications Minimum: A BA/BS Degree with 6+ years of experience, or a MS Degree with 4+ years of experience, or a Ph.D with one year of experience, or 10 years of overall experience without a degree. Professional Level Public Cloud Certification (AWS, Azure, Google). Demonstrated experience working in the context of a sales team. Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills. Preferred: Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders. Hosted Cloud / Traditional IT: Deep knowledge of private cloud and data center architectures (VMware, Citrix, storage, networking). Public cloud: High-level knowledge of AWS/Azure/GCP, how they differ from traditional IT approaches, why businesses use them. Security and compliance: Experience with managed security services and designing secure, compliant architectures. Networking: Strong understanding of hybrid connectivity, SD-WAN, VPN, DNS, and firewalls. Storage, Backup and DR: Design experience with SAN and NAS, backup and data protection approaches, technologies and approaches for replication and disaster recovery. DevOps & Automation: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and modern deployment practices is a plus. Benefits The company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship. EOE, including disability/vets. #J-18808-Ljbffr CRS RapidScale, Inc.